Package: firefox Version: 57.0.4-1 Severity: normal Most of the time when asking mutt to open an attachment in a new tab in a running Firefox instance (using view-mailcap), the browser reports an error:
Firefox can’t find the file at /home/madduck/.tmp/mutt.html It works some times, but that's the exception. The reason seems to be that /usr/bin/firefox exits before the running browser had a chance to read the file. When execution is returned to the caller (mutt in this case), mutt then cleans up the temporary file. By the time, the running Firefox instance wants to read the file, it's gone. It's a classic race condition where mutt seems to win most of the time. It seems that the new /usr/bin/firefox process notifies the running instance, but then doesn't receive or wait for confirmation that the request has been processed (i.e. the file has been read). I've searched the Web and Bugzilla, but could not find a report or solution for this. I seem to recall this has happened before, but it hasn't been a problem for many years. I'm reporting to Debian rather than Bugzilla because it's possible that Debian's packaging is responsible for this. If not, please upstream the report, or tell me to. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.4 ii fontconfig 2.12.6-0.1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.1-2 ii libc6 2.26-3 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.8-3 ii libcairo2 1.15.8-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.2-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-3 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-8 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.6-0.1 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-1 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-19 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.3-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.26-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-5 ii libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.2-1 ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.16-1+b1 ii libnss3 2:3.34.1-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.21.0-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-19 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb-shm0 1.12-1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 firefox recommends no packages. Versions of packages firefox suggests: ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-3 ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4 ii libcanberra0 0.30-6 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.15.2-2 pn mozplugger <none> -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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